A History of Western Philosophy
order." (Thus it appears that Plato's God, unlike the Jewish and Christian God, did not create the world out of nothing, but rea ...
that of the "moving image of eternity" it is correct to say that it was and will be. Time and the heavens came into existence at ...
is raised: Are intelligible essences only names? The answer turns, we are told, on whether mind is or is not the same thing as t ...
and "made them as far as possible the fairest and best, out of things which were not fair and good." The above two sorts of tria ...
The immortal soul is in the head, the mortal in the breast. There is some curious physiology, as, that the purpose of the intest ...
CHAPTER XVIII Knowledge and Perception in Plato M OST modern men take it for granted that empirical knowledge is dependent upon, ...
characterization of perception; when once this is completed, it does not take long to prove that such a thing as perception has ...
putting himself, for the moment, in the place of Protagoras. As for dreams, the percepts are true as percepts. As for the argume ...
awkward consequences. We cannot say "this is white," for if it was white when we began speaking it will have ceased to be white ...
(1) The first of these, with which alone the argument is primarily concerned, is hardly discussed on its own account except in t ...
judgement I call a "judgement of perception." The proposition "knowledge is perception" must be interpreted as meaning "knowledg ...
philosopher, add: "And you can see that that exists." If, being a philosopher, you do add this, you are uttering nonsense. To sa ...
on perception. Clearly the concept "finger" is abstracted from perception; but how about the concept "ten"? Here we may seem to ...
ment, there is no corresponding constituent in the meaning of the statement. We may continue, if we like, to say that numbers ar ...
percepts, are just as good as those of others; the only objection to them is that, as their context is unusual, they are apt to ...
ignores. What he says on this subject, therefore, is largely beside the mark. At the same time, it must be admitted that, unless ...
the seventeenth century, almost every serious intellectual advance has had to begin with an attack on some Aristotelian doctrine ...
presumably impatient of schooling. Aristotle thought no State should have as many as one hundred thousand citizens, * and preach ...
detail and in criticism; he fails in large construction, for lack of fundamental clarity and Titanic fire. It is difficult to de ...
problem of universals is concerned with the meanings of such words, and also of adjectives, such as "white," "hard," "round," an ...
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